Bridle attachment.



Patented July 25, 1911.

Snow W01, Ira A ZZiBow.

IRA ALLISON, OF KOWANDA, NEBRASKA.

BRIDLE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 25, 1911.

Application filed May 18, 1910. Serial No. 561,996.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA ALLISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kowanda, in the county of Garden, State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to bridles and more particularly to the class of bitless bridle attachments.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an attachment in which the bit of a bridle may be entirely dispensed with, thereby obviating injury to the horses mouth yet enabling a teamster or driver to have perfect control of the horse at all times, even should the animal become fractious when either being driven or ridden.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a bridle attachment in which the bridle bit is entirely dispensed with, thereby enabling the animal to have full control of his mouth and thus permitting him to drink or eat without the interference of a bit within his mouth although it will enable a teamster to have full and perfect control of the animal.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a bridle attachment, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efficient in operation and inexpensive in manufacture.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, disclosing the preferred form or embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side View of a bitless bridle constructed in accordance with the invention and applied to a horses head. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the bridle detached from the horse. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the attachment.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals 5 designates the crown strap, 6 the brow strap, 7 the cheek straps and 8 the throat strap of a bridle of the ordinary well-known con struction. The crown strap is provided with the usual check rein guide straps 9 through which is loosely passed a check rein or strap 10. Connected to the cheek straps 7 is a bridge piece or nose strap 11 in the usual manner.

The attachment comprises a pair of bars 12 the same being spaced apart at their forward ends by a cross connecting rod 13 loosely connected with the forward ends of the said bars 12 by means of eye extremities 14. Securely mounted upon or formed integral with the bars 12 near their central oints and rising from their upper faces are loops 15 and 16, both loops 15 and 16 on each bar 12 being arranged side by side. To the loops15 are connected the lower ends of the cheek straps 7 while connected to the loops 16 are the ends of the check rein or strap 10, the cross connecting rod 13 being adapted to extend across the lower part of the nose which is above the nostrils of an animal above the nose. Depending from the under faces of the bars 12 centrally thereof are further loops 17 to which is connected a lower jaw strap 18 carrying a ring 19 to which is adapted to be connected a hitching strap 20, the latter being attached and detached to the ring at will. The lower jaw strap 18 is adapted to pass around the lower jaw of the animal to cooperate with the front cross rod 13 in a manner as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Loosely connected to the rear ends of the bars 12 are rings 21 to which latter are connected the forward ends of the driving reins or lines 22 whereby the animal may be guided in the ordinary well-known manner when hitched to a vehicle or when a rider is mounted upon his back.

It will be noted that as shown in Fig. 1 the bars 12 are normally disposed at an angle with respect to a perpendicular line so that should the animal become fractious, on pulling upon the lines 22 these bars 12 will be shifted to substantially horizontal position or in other words their rear ends will be moved in an upward direction thus causing the descending of the forward ends of the said bars carrying therewith the cross connecting rod 13 whereby the said bar or rod 13 will be forced against the lower part of the nose which is above the nostrils of the animal while the lower jaw strap 18 will be pressed against the lower or under jaw thereby causing the animal to desist in his attempt to be unruly and enabling the driver or teamster to have full and perfect control of the said animal.

hat is claimed is l. The combination with a bridle having cheek straps, of a pair of spaced bars centrally connected to the lower ends of the said straps, a cross connecting rod loosely united to the forward extremities of said bars, means connected to said bars medially of their ends for embracing the lower jaw of an animal, and means at the rear ends of the bars for attachment of reins thereto.

2. An attachment of the class described comprising a pair of bars, a rigid rod having loose connection with the forward ends of said bars, means centrally of said bars for the attachment of the cheek straps of a bridle, a lower jaw embracing strap connected to the central portion of each bar, and means on the rear ends of the bars for the connection of driving reins.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

IRA ALLISON.

Witnesses:

A. N. EMPSON, WM. L. LAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

